Oregon's basketball court

[JonLP24]

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Oregon officials unveiled the floor of newly built Matthew Knight Arena on Friday, and to say the least the design lives up to the school's reputation for cutting-edge panache and flair. The court is framed on all sides by a forest of fir trees, an homage to the school's picturesque Pacific Northwest setting and to Oregon's 1939 national title team nicknamed "The Tall Firs."

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Considering Oregon's deep-rooted ties to Nike, it shouldn't surprise anyone that Tinker Hatfield is the designer of the floor. Hatfield, a former Oregon track and field star and vice president of design and special projects for Nike, designed many of the shoes from the famed Air Jordan line.

"When I was asked to work on the new floor for Matthew Knight Arena, I really boiled it down to three things," Hatfield said. "I really wanted to pay tribute to Matthew Knight himself, to the Kilkenny family and lastly but maybe not least, I wanted to pay tribute to the Pacific Northwest and the Tall Firs, the original basketball team that won a national championship for the University of Oregon in 1939."

Like the famed blue "Smurf Turf" at Boise State's football stadium, Oregon's forest floor is meant to be an iconic design that will immediately be recognizable to TV viewers nationwide. The design has already created a buzz, generating stories in local and regional papers and coverage from a variety of blogs.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/Oregon-s-new-arena-features-a-memorable-basketba?urn=ncaab-283060

[trumad]

1. I thought this was an Onion piece.

[MadBadger]

2. Probably gonna have to change that Pac Ten Logo next year

[fishwax]

3. wow, I think it looks quite cool

I'm curious to see how people react to playing on it. But visually it's quite a nice effect.

[Iggo]

4. You ever have chickens?

They leave splotches on the ground that look just like that.

[HuckleB]

5. No, those splotches look like Jesus, or maybe the Buddha.

[Scurrilous]

8. So does a bleach splash. n/t

[RT Atlanta]

6. Looks pretty cool to me

and I am from a conference (SEC) that loves it some "tradishun"

[El Supremo]

7. Looks like a pine beetle infested forest in Colorado.

all dead and brown

[Iggo]

9. Are fir trees evergreens?

If so, why brown?